So i love my s2000, and the only thing that has ever given me doubt about her is the damn road noise she produces.

I have a system mounted in my trunk, a 13' fokal and an eclispse 4 channel amp mounted on a rack, it is mounted where the tray that use to cover the spare tire use to sit. It sits at an angle so the sub is facing the trunk door from the inside.

My problem is that i have noticed increased road noise. things rattling, plastic rubbing, and since i took out the tray that the soft top use to be cupped by behind the seats and your head, everything sounds EVEN LOUDER back there.

AND IM ANNOYED. even thinking about selling the S because of all this noise. I mean the random rattling and rocks your hear hitting the inside of the wheel wells from outside are completely driving me nuts. imagine the radio off trying to have conversation with a lady friend and all you here is rattling and shaking and rocks. IM AN ANAL DUDE. i like bmw sound interiors. so im going to attempt to dynomat the S

my idea is lining the back area between the trunk and the seat with that material they stick under carpet in houses.

you know that stuff that looks like its made from scrap cotton and dust bunnies? lol
well i called a carpentry spot and find out its called JUT

well my idea is to somehow glue it to the floors in the back area, stick it on the interior of the wheel wells but on the inside of the car and just secure all plastic somehow to get rid of rattling.

LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU GUYS THINK, let me know what you guys have tried out if anyones attempted to end hondas cookie cutter hollow box rattling.

im also going to remount my system and drop it into the tool tray in the trunk to get rid of more rattling.



thanks in advance for your interest and your input
chris

 

quiet coat is good stuff... and much cheapers than dynamat... also try the roof taring stuff found in home depot. Its the same stuff as dynamat and is much cheaper as well!

 

if you do a search on "dynamat" you'll get a large number of threads,
some if which might be useful.
here's one:
https://www.s2ki.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=329900

 

Do you have a hardtop yet? If you want a quite car thats the place to start. You could install a hardtop. and remove your soft top and install a custom subwoofer box in the soft top area. Should make for a bad ass system.

 

Kosoku, where do you live? (City/State)

 

Hey, if already decided to make sounddeadening, check out this link:
http://www.sounddeadenershowdown.com/products/

I found it very useful to choose proper material. And for me it seems Dynomat one of the best in this case even if it is more expensive.
According to tests in that link, there is a few top-level products on the market, and Dynomat on of them.

Hope that will help.

 

Definitely read that link before you buy or do anything.

 

the reason i installed a sound system is to overpower the rattles. the rattles from the latches and the roof tray kill me. (ive done the stickypad-in-latch trick)

 

I have second skin, and still in a long process of my system, I will try to post some pictures when it is finish. I'm doing a triple layers with sludge, damplifier pro and finish it up with a layer of noise filter, lol a little overkill, but i'm a sound freak.

 

Hey, I'm really interested in Damplifier Pro, so pics would be really helpful and some feedback as a real user
What areas are you covering? I was thinking only about doors, central area and rear wheel arcs (sorry for my english

I think the floor will be too much because of low clearance and RWD it will not help much. I guess I'm covering the most noisy areas and doors because of the speakers.

Also, could you please provide some estimation how heavy is that thing?
As far as I see it is 0.5lb per square ft, but I'm not sure how many sheets I need to cover that areas I want